This guy gets it www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...

A must read - including the NYTimes piece @donmoyn.bsky.social references.

"Now, the bill of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is starting to come due. Since last July, when the OBBBA was signed, more than 4 million people, including 1.5 million children, have lost coverage. Coverage is plummeting across the country."

New at Can We Still Govern: New reporting is starting to reveal the human toll of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. @pamherd.bsky.social and I have been warning about this for a year. It will get worse. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-the-o...

This is the first main part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicking in. The second part, restricting Medicaid, is timed to happen after the midterms.

It's ALMOST like if people read @pamherd.bsky.social & @donmoyn.bsky.social's Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means, they could have predicted precisely the adverse effect of layering on new administrative burdens to accessing life-saving food assistance. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

Life under a two-tier justice system. There is a real process for people to seek pardons. But its been set aside for cronies, crooks and donors

See this movie if you haven’t. It’s on Tubi. Let’s be honest, you could use a good 90s comedy about now.

If you are familiar with election administration allegations over any period of time, you will always bet on "problem with the databases" over "actual human beings engaged in felonies for no material gain"

And since this is about ICE flights, we're indebted to the work of @gillianbrockell.com, who is responsible for much, if not most, of what we know about ICE's air travel. Support her! Keep her doing this work if she can! We need it. gillianbrockell.com

I’m a beach fanatic. Northern Michigan is in a league of its own.

Image from the illuminated edition of the Trump Bible.

"The Wall St. Journal recently found that online influencers were being paid by companies to generate fake videos about them winning easy money on these markets."

LMK if you can tell the difference between "AI teacher" and "Peter Thiel crony working in the Trump administration"

… New, horrific details of new allegations against the Tate brothers. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

Rubio just swapping in “Havana School” for the usual “Frankfurt School” nonsense

Northern Michigan baby

Political reasons for tenure denials are a violation of faculty governance and academic freedom The best part? The president (Jim Davis) is himself not an academic, and got tenure not as a result of a formal review, but pro forma from the Board of Regents as part of his hiring contract

The moral panic over cancel culture brought us state censorship. It’s not the only cause, but it’s a big contributor. They will never, ever admit that this is partially their fault. But it is. Exaggerate, repeat the same few anecdotes, claim a national crisis — that got results. Congrats.

His wife, Yésica Alamilla López, “revealed to the paper that she had only come to learn of her husband’s death while watching television.”

Even when it comes to limits on who can trade, different legislation says different things - the Senate res only covers Senators. Other measures cover members of Congress, their spouses and children, etc. Brings up the question: who counts as an insider? How do we know?

Tapper is being insanely dishonest with his audience in characterizing El-Sayed's comments like this. It wasnt a public statement, it was a surreptitious recording of an off the cuff internal campaign discussion and ripped out of context.

Trump is going after the National Academy of Sciences. Gift link.

Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.

Amid scandals ranging from insider trading to death markets, Congress has introduced 20+ pieces of legislation on prediction markets. I wrote about how there’s still little consensus on what they even are. 🧵/1

This Getty photo is one for the ages

Very important piece by Cerin Lindgrensavage and @davidasuper.bsky.social. This behavior by the administration is not only illegal, it is anti-constitutional. thehill.com/opinion/cong...

"As of Friday afternoon, more than 70 projects that had won an estimated $185 million in funding commitments had received these 'nonaward' ... That’s roughly half of all the active grants AHRQ had listed this week."

Worth playing the game to see how awful some of these tops were

Boston Globe Editorial Board: The bogus arguments against birthright citizenship The right's effort to undermine birthright citizenship rests on flimsy legal arguments — and flimsy factual ones, too. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/20/o...

New, from @splawinski.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern? The more we learn about how prediction markets operate, the clearer the need for regulation. So whats happening? Congress seems unable to act, while the Trump admin is blocking states from doing so. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-only-t...

They’re kids!

We’re gonna need an accountability task force dedicated solely to investigating Stephen Miller.

If the plot is “no price is too high to pay to bring Matt Damon home”, I am fully sat for the movie.

This is just a wonderful illustration of the billionaire capture of the idea of free speech as a cover for bad arguments. See "FREE EXPRESSION" is when a billionaire's editorial team tells the scientists they are wrong for not downplaying threats that would could cut into corporate profits.

Here's a story on Troy Jackson crushing the county delegate caucuses this weekend, and becoming the presumptive nominee to take on Susan Collins for the Maine Senate seat. Being able to organize that quickly signals good momentum for November, and he'll need that. prospect.org/2026/07/19/j...

Eat your heart out, Hemingway

Imagine if your head of state was less shameless than the Salt Bae guy

World champs x2 🇪🇸🏆🏆 Spain is the first nation to simultaneously hold the men's and women's FIFA World Cup crowns!

Genuinely looks as though the Spain team have brought along a satirical cardboard cutout for a laugh.

Thinking of him now

Now!

Brian Clough’s remark that “If God had meant football to be played in the air he would have put grass in the sky” sounds terrific and sophisticated until you have to watch Spain fail to score for two hours.

Poor bastard’s starving

Not sure I can recall a more one-sided World Cup Final. And yet it is still a toss up.

What am I missing - that looked like a good goal?

wow at this incredible deal